Tool



Feb. 9,1937. w, E, E E 2,010,217

' Fi led Sept. 5, 1934 Patented Feb. 9, 1937 Tool. William E. Seger, Lacy, S. Dak.

Application September 5, 1934, Serial No. 742,829

1 Claim- This invention is a tool intended especially for the use of men engaged in repairing fences, and its object is to provide an inexpensive tool which may be readily manipulated to withdraw staples, stretch wires, cut the wires, or withdraw nails. The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing and consists in certain novel features which will be hereinafter first fully described and then more particularly defined in the appended claim.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a tool constructed according to the invention.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the same.

Figure 3 is'a detail section on the line 33 of Figure 1.

The tool comprises two handle members I and 2, which are pivoted together side by side and are equipped at one end with openings 3 adapted to register and permit the, device to be suspended upon a nail or other support or toreceive a cord for hanging thetool upon a saddle horn when the user is mounted. The pivot 4 connecting the handle members has a reduced end which is inserted through alined openings in the handles and is threaded at its extremity to receive a nut 5 whereby the separation of the members of the tool will be prevented, it being noted that the opposite end portion of the pivot is relatively enlargedand defines a shoulder 6 which is adapted to bear against the side of the adjacent member of the tool. The enlarged end portion 1 projectslaterally from the tool and forms a stud or pin about which the end of a broken wire or a wire splice may be bent or hooked when the tool is in use. This projecting portion may also serve as a fulcrum about which the device may be rocked in some instances. The enlarged forward portions of the handle members form jaws and one jaw is provided with a hammer head 8 whereby the driving of nails or staples will be facilitated. At the end of this hammer head is a tooth 9 which may be engaged in a loose staple in a fence post so that, by rocking the tool on the hammer head as a fulcrum, the staple will be easily and quickly withdrawn. At the base of the hammer head, the jaw carrying the same is formed with a stop shoulder it adapted to overlie the edge of the handle member 2 and thereby limit opening movement of the jaws so that damage to any of the working parts will be avoided. In advance of said shoulder the side of the hammer head is formed with an arcuate recess ll receiving a correspondingly shaped lug or enlargement It on the mating jaw so that the two jaws will fit closely together and may be rocked relative to each other. In advance of said recess and arm- 'ate enlargementflahere is formed a blade l3 cooperating with a mating blade I whereby as the jaws are brought together a wire may be severed with a shear cut, the blade ll having its upper edge beveled, as shown at l5, whereby a cavity will be produced to accommodate and hold one end of the severed wire. The extremities of the jaws are tapered to form bills l6 and I! having longitudinally curved outer .edge faces,

constituting continuations of the longitudinally I curved edge faces of the jaws. The bill It has a diagonally extending inner edge face l8 defining a wedge-shaped bill, while the bill I! is formed with intersecting inner edge faces l9 and l 20 defining a pocket 2| between the two bills when the jaws are closed, as shown in full lines in Figure 1', and also causing the bill to have shallow depth, as shown in this figure. By this arrangement either nails or staples may be easily extracted. When a nail is to be extracted, it maybe gripped between bills of the two jaws with its head in the recess or pocket 2| and the tool then rocked along the curved outer edge face of either jaw as a fulcrum and the nail easily withdrawn. When a staple is to be withdrawn, the bill [1 may be first forced under the staple and the tool rocked upon the curved outer edge face of the jaw carrying this bill. After the staple has been partially withdrawn, the tool may then be turned to a position in which the bill l6 may be passed through the staple and the tool rocked along the curved face of the jaw carrying the bill it and the staple easily withdrawn. Attention is also called to the fact that when shifting the tool to a position in which the bill It will extend through the staple, it is not necessary to release the staple as the point of one bill will pass through the staple as the other bill moves out of the staple.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that I have provided an exceedingly simple and inexpensive tool. Its use to drive nails or extract staples is obvious and its use as a wire cutter will be readily understood. If one end of a broken wire be bent or hooked over the laterally extending pin '8 and the tool then rocked hori- Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

to having portions projecting forwardly from the lug and tapered towards their front ends to form bills having longitudinally curved outer edge faces, one bill having a flat diagonally extending inner edge face defining a wedge-shaped bill and the other bill having a V-shaped recess 5 formed in its inner face defining a pocketbetween the bills and imparting an elongated slender contour to the jaw.

WILLIAM E. SEGER. 

